AI for Designers and Engineers
A course that teaches you how to use AI to help you build interfaces that feel handmade.
You can tell when an interface was built with AI.
The spacing is slightly off. The animations feel cheap, or there are too many of them. Everything looks like a template. It works, that’s about as good as it gets.
So most of us end up in one of two places. Some avoid AI for UI work altogether, doing everything by hand, others let AI run and accept what comes out, shipping interfaces that feel generic.
Neither one is a good place to be.
AI is only as good as the person directing it
The people getting great results with AI aren’t using a secret model or a magic prompt. They know what a great interface looks like, and they know how to steer AI towards it.
They know how to make AI follow their taste instead of its defaults. When to delegate and when to take over. How to review AI’s output the way a proper design engineer reviews work, and how to catch the details it gets wrong.
Work that used to take a week takes a day, and the quality bar doesn’t drop, it goes up, because you spend your time on the details that matter instead of the boilerplate.
That’s the skill this course teaches.
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What you’ll learn
This is a course about using AI the way it should be used: as a tool that amplifies your taste, not a replacement for it. You’ll learn:
- How to set up coding agents like Claude Code and Cursor for UI work.
- How to encode your taste, or the taste of your team/others, into rules and skills, so AI’s first attempt looks like your work, not a template.
- Workflows for building real interfaces with AI, from prototype to polished component.
- How to use AI for the parts it’s genuinely good at, and how to recognize the parts where it will let you down.
- How to review and refine AI output, so you ship interfaces that feel good.
Everything is based on how I use these tools every day in my own work, not on demos that fall apart the moment you try them on a real codebase.
Before: Fighting AI
After: Directing AI
Prompting and hoping it goes well
Steering AI with clear direction
Interfaces that look AI-generated
Interfaces that look like your work
Animations that feel cheap
Motion that feels right
Fixing AI’s output by hand
AI that follows your taste from the start
Avoiding AI for work that matters
Knowing exactly what to delegate
Hey, I’m Emil
I’m a design engineer at Linear, and before that I worked on the design team at Vercel. I also created Sonner and Vaul, two open source React libraries downloaded over 70,000,000 times per week from npm.
I care deeply about user interfaces, and I use AI in my work every day. Not because of hype, but because it genuinely makes me faster without lowering my bar.
The same care as animations.dev
My previous course, animations.dev, has been taken by over 11,000 designers and engineers from companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Apple, and Stripe.
If you’ve taken it, you know the level of quality to expect here.
Build great interfaces with AI
Learn how to make AI match your quality bar, from the creator of animations.dev.
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- A set of skills you can use
- Free future updates
- Private Discord community
- Access for life